Quotes from St Jerome

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother!

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

And do ye tell it to those who come after you, how amid swords and deserts and wild beasts, chastity was never captive: and how a man devoted to Christ may die, but cannot be defeated.

She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others – even men – could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.